Stan Chandling

Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's episode is on cardiac rehab. We've got a wonderful guest with us. We'll get to that in a second. My name is Stan Chandling. I'm one of the co-hosts for the show, along with my other Host for the show is Clarence Jones, who you'll be hearing from throughout this show as well.

Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's episode is on cardiac rehab. We've got a wonderful guest with us. We'll get to that in a second. My name is Stan Chandling. I'm one of the co-hosts for the show, along with my other Host for the show is Clarence Jones, who you'll be hearing from throughout this show as well.

We've got a great crew that makes all these shows very, very successful for us. Our research crew includes Maddie Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, and Sheridan Nygaard. Sheridan also provides some marketing expertise for us. And then our production manager is Matthew Campbell, who makes sure all these shows get out to you, the listening audience.

We've got a great crew that makes all these shows very, very successful for us. Our research crew includes Maddie Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, and Sheridan Nygaard. Sheridan also provides some marketing expertise for us. And then our production manager is Matthew Campbell, who makes sure all these shows get out to you, the listening audience.

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Our sponsor for this show is Human Partnership, which is a community health organization in the state of Minnesota. They do wonderful work, community health oriented work. And I highly recommend that you check out their website at humanpartnership.org, as well as our website at healthchatterpodcast.com.

With that, I'd like to introduce our guest today is Dr. Randall Thomas, who's a professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic, Alex School of Medicine, and is a consultant in preventive cardiology at Mayo Clinic. His clinical research has focused primarily on preventive cardiology.

With that, I'd like to introduce our guest today is Dr. Randall Thomas, who's a professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic, Alex School of Medicine, and is a consultant in preventive cardiology at Mayo Clinic. His clinical research has focused primarily on preventive cardiology.

We'll get into the aspects of prevention, the primary prevention and the secondary in our discussions, and also, obviously, in cardiac rehab. He's held many leadership roles in this arena. and is very, very well respected, not only at the state level, but also nationally as well. So Dr. Thomas, thank you. Thank you so much for being with us today.

We'll get into the aspects of prevention, the primary prevention and the secondary in our discussions, and also, obviously, in cardiac rehab. He's held many leadership roles in this arena. and is very, very well respected, not only at the state level, but also nationally as well. So Dr. Thomas, thank you. Thank you so much for being with us today.

Yeah. So, all right, let's start out first of all, cardiac rehab. Why don't you give us like a little bit of a historical perspective on cardiac rehab as it stands and, you know, kind of bringing us up to the present.

Yeah. So, all right, let's start out first of all, cardiac rehab. Why don't you give us like a little bit of a historical perspective on cardiac rehab as it stands and, you know, kind of bringing us up to the present.

You know, it's interesting because, you know, you think about just about any kind of surgery, for instance, or an event, you think that Everything's got to be rehabilitated somehow. Like, for instance, somebody has a replaced knee. Guess what? You better do your exercises. Otherwise, the recovery, frankly, is going to be a lot slower, for sure, that we saw in that arena. Similar in this.

You know, it's interesting because, you know, you think about just about any kind of surgery, for instance, or an event, you think that Everything's got to be rehabilitated somehow. Like, for instance, somebody has a replaced knee. Guess what? You better do your exercises. Otherwise, the recovery, frankly, is going to be a lot slower, for sure, that we saw in that arena. Similar in this.

The other thing is that I think most people, I think they realize that the heart is a muscle. But on the other hand, when it's hurt, when you have a heart attack or when you have surgery, a stent, for instance, that's put in, it's still a muscle. And the muscle can get stronger really by working it, even though it has been affected, it still can get to a better place going forward.

The other thing is that I think most people, I think they realize that the heart is a muscle. But on the other hand, when it's hurt, when you have a heart attack or when you have surgery, a stent, for instance, that's put in, it's still a muscle. And the muscle can get stronger really by working it, even though it has been affected, it still can get to a better place going forward.

So, all right, let's talk about, all right, you kind of brought us up to a certain point. Now let's talk about, you know, based on your experience as a physician, what are some of the current goals for cardiac rehab?

So, all right, let's talk about, all right, you kind of brought us up to a certain point. Now let's talk about, you know, based on your experience as a physician, what are some of the current goals for cardiac rehab?

So let's play this out a little bit. I had a dear friend who had to have a stent put in. And one of the things, and she contacted me afterwards, and she said, Stan, what about, this basically was the question, what about cardiac rehab? And so my answer was, do it. Just do it. Don't fool around. Do it.

So let's play this out a little bit. I had a dear friend who had to have a stent put in. And one of the things, and she contacted me afterwards, and she said, Stan, what about, this basically was the question, what about cardiac rehab? And so my answer was, do it. Just do it. Don't fool around. Do it.